From: "Glenn Meadows" 

That's what I thought, thanks.

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Glenn M.
"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> It depends on your BIOS what the limitations are.  For the most part it's
> gone for new hardware.
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> - Bob Comer
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> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:42f23705{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Quick question...at one point, there was a limitation that the OS files
>> had to reside below, I believe the 8gig boundary.  Is that still a
>> constraint in todays world?  I don't think so, thought I'd at least toss
>> that old wives tale out on the table.
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>> Glenn M.
>> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
>> news:42f234d3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> I've still got a full version of PM 7, that I've been able to use on
>>> this 32 gig drive successfully to slide partition sizes around (shrink C
>>> and D, expand E and G as needed, E is boot, most everything else is
>>> stored on G). E was my ancient/old OS/2 HPFS partition back when I dual
>>> booted between Win 98 and OS/2 back on an original 8Gig drive.  Then I
>>> blew that away when I moved to Win2K.  Then, moved to a 25 gig HD, and
>>> added G to the mix.  Cloned all that to the current 32gig that came with
>>> my A21p Thinkpad. (moved from a 770ED to the A21p).  Now, I've gone to
>>> XP on the laptop for some application compatibility, and want more
>>> space/speed on the HD.
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>>> Glenn M.
>>> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>>> news:42f23154$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>I think Acronis users need two products to 1. clone, with
expansion to a
>>>>bigger new drive.  2. do full partition management.
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>>>> I've used a client's Acronis 7.something, and it worked 4 times and
>>>> failed once.
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>>>> Ghost 9 feels cobbled together.  Ghost 2003, which I also own, fails
>>>>  >200G, on SATA, etc.
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>>>> The drive mfrs free cloners, the ones you get with a retail drive,
>>>> mostly work, but I've had to run the target on a 40-pin cable in a
>>>> couple of instances to get a reliable image.  There are
noises off of
>>>> SATA trouble there, too.
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>>>> I think the situtation is, uh, fluid.  Don't expect the brick *house
>>>> reliability we used to enjoy in the PM 3-5 days (after we waited for
>>>> the .01 upgrade to fix the bugs).
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